Bernhard Bueb

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Bernhard Bueb (born October 24, 1938 in Moshi , Tanganyika ) is a German educator , author and former head of the Salem Castle School . He lives in Überlingen on Lake Constance .

Live and act

After the Second World War, Bueb came to Germany from East Africa with his parents, who ran a coffee plantation in the former German colony . His grandfather was the director of IG Farben , Julius Bueb . Bernhard Bueb attended primary school in Stuttgart and grammar school in Schwäbisch Hall up to 11th grade. After graduating from high school at the St. Blasien College , which was run by the Jesuits , he served in the German Armed Forces , which he finished as a flag junior . He then studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Munich and Saarbrücken , where he received his doctorate in 1968 on the subject of Nietzsche's Critique of Practical Reason under Hermann Krings . This was followed by an assistant position with the pedagogue Heinrich Roth at the University of Göttingen, and from 1970 with Hartmut von Hentig at the University of Bielefeld .

Bueb worked as a teacher and educator at the Odenwald School from 1972 to 1974 under its director Gerold Becker . Bueb then headed the Schloss Salem boarding school until 2005. In his last year in Salem, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. After working in Salem, Bueb wrote three books that were published by Ullstein Verlag . Bueb is married and has two daughters.

Head of the Schloss Salem School

Bueb ran the school from 1974 to 2005. During this time, he made Salem a school with an educational concept based on Anglo-Saxon models. He drove the construction of the new upper level campus Salem College and thus the expansion of the boarding school , making Salem the first German grammar school where students could take both the German Abitur and the International Baccalaureate . Donations raised almost 30 million euros for the new Salem College building. For the opening on October 18, 2000 published u. a. the then Federal President Johannes Rau and former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

Through his advertising with scholarship providers, he changed the composition of the students: In 2005, around a third of the students were supported by scholarships. During his entire time as headmaster, Bueb was particularly keen to expand the scholarship system, in which the school advertised scholarships for high-performing young people with strong characters. The number of pupils in the lower, middle and upper grades was 670 in 2005. In particular through the introduction of the International Baccalaureate and his scholarship policy, Bueb significantly increased the number of internal pupils during his time as director.

During his time in Salem, Bueb was not without controversy. According to the weekly magazine Der Spiegel , Salem teachers condemned the alcohol tests and urine samples he carried out on schoolchildren as "degrading restrictions on personal freedom". In the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , former students from the school were interviewed about Bueb. A majority of them rated the disciplinary measures in Salem as positive in retrospect. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Bernhard Bueb is revered by many in Salem as "the personified good old days".

Polemics

To the book Praise the Discipline

In 2006 Bueb published the educational book Lob der Discipline - A polemic . It was accompanied by prints and interviews in numerous media, including the FAZ , Spiegel and NZZ , as well as a series of appearances on talk shows. For decades there was no longer a book on education in Germany that achieved such a high circulation. It made Bueb one of the most famous educators in Germany overnight. The tabloid Bild published a multi-part educational series based on Bueb's book. In the course of these publications she coined the title “Germany's strictest teacher” for Bueb. In this book he summarizes his findings as a pedagogue . He advocates a balanced education between “leading and growing, discipline and love, control and trust.” The pamphlet is an appeal to adults to take on more responsibility for their children and “regain the courage to bring up”. It calls for the terms authority and discipline to be re-established in educational culture. Bueb considers order, self-conquest and obedience to be important pillars of young people on the way to inner freedom. If you release children and adolescents too early into an age-appropriate independence, you will overwhelm them. This is also detrimental to the acquisition of freedom, because freedom means self-determination and is “a late acquired virtue that requires a lot of discipline”. Until children and adolescents have this self-discipline, you have to give them orientation and guidance and also be ready to punish. From the third month of life, children should be withdrawn from their “over-caring mothers, who mean it too well and raise the children too loudly egoists” during the day as part of an obligatory community upbringing. Because without community with other children they experienced “no jealousy, no envy, them do not have to share, they do not experience injustice, which is why justice remains a foreign word for them. ”Furthermore, Bueb advocates compulsory all-day schools, so that pupils of all classes can experience the happiness of exertion as well as being involved in authority and team spirit in the after-school game. It is also the task of the educator to help in the search for the extracurricular talents.

While Bueb's book became a bestseller just a few days after it was published and it met with largely approval in the mass media, representatives of educational science and the chairman of the German Teachers' Association (DL) reject his theses. Frank-Olaf Radtke criticized his educational philosophy as " black pedagogy ". The developmental psychologist and child therapist Wolfgang Bergmann described the theses in the book simply as "stupidities" and as in large parts "uninhibited totalitarian". Individual media representatives even see a correspondence between Bueb's educational concept and right-wing extremist educational ideals.

Bergmann and Rolf Arnold come to the conclusion that Bueb praises discipline, but actually mine discipline through punishment. However, this does not lead to a sense of responsibility and positively changed social behavior. In an anthology published in February 2007 and edited by Micha Brumlik , scientists from various disciplines formulated a comprehensive critique of Bueb's theses. The Frankfurt (then Bielefeld) educationalist Sabine Andresen , one of the authors of the anthology, accuses the former boarding school director of questioning the liberal social model in general and dogmatically proclaiming an authoritarian worldview. The brain researcher Manfred Spitzer writes in the same book: "I can only underline a lot of what is in Bueb's pamphlet from my experience as a father and (university) teacher", but at the same time emphasizes the scientific insignificance of empirical values. Spitzer continues: “It is Bueb's merit to have revived the discussion about what children and young people need in order to become adults who can cope with their lives. Discipline is certainly part of it. ”Nonetheless, he rejects Bueb's“ recipe for 'tough' discipline. ”

In 2012, the “Johannes Schools Foundation” in St. Gallen issued another reply to Bueb under the title “Discipline of Praise”. Therein the term "Disciplina" is considered as a subject and a pedagogically reversed procedure is proposed, in which the joint focus of teacher and student on the subject matter creates a discipline that is not only demanded from an interpersonal and psychological perspective, but is primarily created by the object of learning. The terms “power” and “self-conquering” are criticized in the “discipline of praise” as something alien to education, because “one cannot influence oneself directly, any more than one can educate directly. Upbringing also takes place through content, through disciplinae ... The contrast between self-determination and external determination only breaks out where the content that connects us with one another disappears ”(Robert Spaemann). This assumes that the learning material that children and young people are supposed to incorporate is a real disciplina of classic size and can basically be experienced as something beautiful.

To the book Of Duty to Lead

In his second, widely discussed book, published in 2008, Bueb calls for a radical rethink in the education debate. He sees the educational misery as the result of a lack of leadership by the school principals and teachers and not just as the result of a lack of structural changes or a lack of reforms. Therefore, he calls for teachers to be the focus of attention. So far, teachers have been marginalized in all educational debates. But it is up to them whether the school can strengthen the self-esteem of children and thus make education accessible to them. Bueb advocates all-day schools, the abolition of civil servant status so that teachers can be terminated, coaching courses as ongoing advanced training for teachers and educators and the evaluation of teachers by their students, among others. He also demands more autonomy for school heads. Schools should be financed by the state, but privately run in order to be able to ideally adjust to their students. Leading also includes the supervision of the teachers by the school principal: "Leading means leading, planning, coordinating, delegating and controlling."

To the book The Power of the Honest. A provocation.

In his third and last book, published by Ullstein Verlag in 2014, Bueb advocates putting honesty back at the center of education. “Raising children to be honest people is the primary task of parents and educators”. Honesty, says Bueb, has to be learned and, above all, practiced, and children have to be able to find their way in conflicts in which they have to decide for or against the truth. “We have to demand the courage that honest behavior requires. We also have to encourage them to overcome their indolence: standing up for the truth can be quite exhausting. ”For Bueb, the community of their peers in all-day schools, i.e. eating, doing sports or acting, offers the ideal environment to practice this .

Today children have to learn again to be honest with themselves and others and not take the dishonesty of many adults, companies and entire countries as an example. Because the truthfulness of friendships, partnerships and professional cooperation is the only basis that allows people to lead a happy life.

engagement

Bernhard Bueb is still involved in numerous committees today. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Erich and Amanda Neumayer Foundation, which promotes projects with a focus on education. Since 2007 he has also been on the Board of Trustees of the German Foundation Center in Essen. Bueb has been volunteering in the Wahlwies Children's Village since 2005 and has been a board member there since 2012. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the “Youth and Education” foundation in Konstanz.

Between 2010 and 2016, Bueb acted as chairman of the Anne-Sophie School (FSAS), which is run by the Würth Foundation. To this day he is closely connected to the school and is available to advise it. From 2005 to 2015 he was on the board of trustees of the private school Schloss Neubänen and from 1969 to 2017, with interruptions, a member of the board of trustees of the Landschulheim am Solling in Holzminden. From 1996 to 2008 he was a member of the board of the Dornier Foundation for the Promotion of Gifted Schoolchildren.

Bueb was a member of the board of the German National Academic Foundation from 1980 to 1999 . From 1986 to 1999, Bueb was also a member of the small committee of the Bremen Tobacco College .

Bernhard Bueb was involved as a non-party member on the list of the FDP in the municipal council of his place of residence in Überlingen from 2009 to 2014 .

Honors

In 2005 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Fonts

Books
Articles and articles (selection)
  • School of Salem Castle. Chronicle - pictures - visions . Self-published, Salem 1995, ISBN 3-00-000418-1 (collaboration).
  • Elitism as a means of education . In: The call for elites . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2001, pp. 97-101, ISBN 3-8260-1946-6
  • No child should be lost. The future of school education . In: future now! Steiner, Stuttgart 2009, pp. 93-108, ISBN 978-3-515-09397-2

literature

  • Josef Kraus : Generalized judgments don't get you anywhere . In: Rheinischer Merkur . September 21, 2006 ( online ).
  • Annegret Nill: The wind from the past . In: taz . September 27, 2006, p. 18 ( online ).
  • Hans Brügelmann : Educators are not mechanics . In: taz . September 27, 2006, p. 18 ( online ).
  • Matthias Altenburg : Less discipline please! In: The time . No. 40 , 2006 ( zeit.de ).
  • Sabine Pamperrien : Learning from dog training . In: Netzeitung . February 20, 2007 ( online ( memento of February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )). }
  • Gesture of the public educator . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2007 ( online - interview with the educationalist Sabine Andresen (Bielefeld University)).
  • Annegret Nill: A child's picture like that of the Nazis . In: taz . February 28, 2007 ( online ).
  • Micha Brumlik (ed.): On the abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb . Beltz, Weinheim 2007, ISBN 3-407-85765-9 .
  • Rolf Arnold : superstition discipline. Answers from a systemic pedagogy to the “praise of discipline” . Carl Auer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-89670-614-4 .
  • Wolfgang Bergmann: Discipline without fear. How to win the respect of our children and not lose their trust . Beltz, Weinheim 2007, ISBN 3-407-85898-1 .
  • Franz Hamburger : Education as Violence. Where Bernhard Bueb wants to lead education. In: Sylke Bartmann u. a. (Ed.): Of course, life is always disturbing. Perspectives on Development and Upbringing. Wiesbaden 2009
  • Olaf Link: Education and information. A help to understand the function of Super-Nanny, Bernhard Bueb and Michael Winterhoff in the historical-social context . Kid Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-929386-31-8 .
  • Anton N. Schmid: Discipline of praise. Pedagogical responses . Johannes Schools Foundation, St. Gallen 2012, ISBN 978-3-03302795-4 .

Web links

Wikiquote: Bernhard Bueb  - Quotes
Commons : Bernhard Bueb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moving times - The history of the Schloss Salem school. Schule Schloss Salem, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Salem Palace opens international college . In: The world
  3. ^ Christine Böhringer: Elite school: Salem committed . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/2013
  4. ↑ Bernhard Bueb: Too many parents are conflict-shy . World online
  5. ↑ Nils Köhler: The Defender of a Myth. The Schloss Salem school said goodbye to Bernhard Bueb, one of the most prominent German educators. In: Südkurier , June 23, 2005, p. 3. (Review)
  6. ↑ Teachers must also be able to terminate . West German newspaper
  7. ↑ a b c Martin Doerry , Katja Thimm: Discipline is the gateway to happiness . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 2006 ( online interview).
  8. ↑ Our teacher, Doctor Bueb . In: The time . No. 40 , 2006 ( zeit.de ).
  9. ↑ Sebastian Balzter: An officer for Salem . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 16, 2017 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Discipline is not everything . WORLD
  11. ^ Bernhard Bueb: Praise of the discipline: A polemic . List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-471-79542-2 , pp. 18 .
  12. ↑ Bueb, p. 13.
  13. ↑ Bueb, pp. 33-62.
  14. ↑ Josef Kraus : Blanket judgments do not help . In: Rheinischer Merkur . September 21, 2006 ( online - President of the German Teachers Association on Bueb's theses).
  15. ^ Hans Traxl: Bernhard Bueb between image and philosophical quartet . In: Daughters and Sons . (Head of upper school of the Odenwaldschule through Bernhard Bueb).
  16. ↑ Hans Brügelmann : Education is not a technology . In: Archives of the Future . September 18, 2006 ( online - Professor for Educational Science at the University of Siegen with a reply to Bueb's media campaign).
  17. ^ Frank-Olaf Radtke: rearmament in the adult camp. Bernhard Bueb's Black Pedagogy for the 21st Century . In: Micha Brumlik (Ed.): From the abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb . ISBN 978-3-407-85765-1 , pp. 204-242 .
  18. ↑ Kathrin Zinkant: We have the wrong teachers . In: The time . No. 47 , 2006 ( zeit.de ).
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Bergmann: Authoritarian and clueless, unworldly and anti-modern - or: How to write educational bestsellers . In: Micha Brumlik (Ed.): From the abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb . ISBN 978-3-407-85765-1 , pp. 33-51 .
  20. ↑ Matthias Altenburg : Less discipline please! In: The time . No. 40 , 2006 ( zeit.de ).
  21. ↑ Annegret Nill: A child's picture like that of the Nazis . In: the daily newspaper . February 28, 2007 ( online ).
  22. ↑ Wolfgang Bergmann: Discipline without fear. How to win the respect of our children and not lose their trust . Beltz Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-407-85898-1 .
  23. ^ Rolf Arnold : superstition discipline. Systemic pedagogy responses to the “praise of discipline” . Carl-Auer Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-89670-614-4 .
  24. ↑ Micha Brumlik (ed.): On the abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb . Beltz Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-407-85765-9 .
  25. ^ Gestus des Volkserziehers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2007 ( online - interview with the educationalist Sabine Andresen (Bielefeld University)).
  26. ↑ Manfred Spitzer: Critique of the discipline from a (neuro-) biological point of view . In: Micha Brumlik (Ed.): From the abuse of discipline. Answers from science to Bernhard Bueb . ISBN 978-3-407-85765-1 , pp. 169 .
  27. ^ Spitzer in: Brumlik, p. 202 f.
  28. ^ Anton N. Schmid: Discipline of praise. Pedagogical responses . Johannes Schools Foundation, St. Gallen 2012, ISBN 978-3-03302795-4 .
  29. ^ Robert Spaemann: Limits. On the ethical dimension of action . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-608-91027-8 .
  30. ↑ Bernhard Bueb: On the duty to lead. Nine Commandments of Education . Ullstein, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-550-08718-9 .
  31. ^ Bernhard Bueb: All power to the headmasters! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 5, 2008, p. 35 .
  32. ↑ Bernhard Bueb: Of the duty to lead. Nine Commandments of Education. Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2008, p. 34.
  33. ↑ Bernhard Bueb: The power of the honest. Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin 2014
  34. ↑ Bernhard Bueb: [1] Merkel cheats through . In: Der Spiegel September 25, 2013.
  35. ↑ neumayer-stiftung.de
  36. ↑ Dr. Bernhard Bueb is the new director of the Wahlwies children's village. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of October 23, 2012. Accessed January 25, 2014.
  37. ↑ Frankfurter Zukunftsrat e. V. - Scientific Advisory Board: Commitment Bernhard Bueb. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frankfurter-zukunftsrat.de
  38. ↑ Würth Foundation: 10 years of FSAS Künzelsau. 2016, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Corinna Raupach: Even at the age of 80, Bernhard Bueb still has many ideas for reforms in education . In: Südkurier . October 23, 2018 ( suedkurier.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).
  40. ^ Esther and Silvius Dornier Foundation
  41. ↑ Stefan Hilser: Überlingen: bestselling author Bueb sits on the local council . In: Südkurier , June 10, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2012. 
  42. ↑ Hanspeter Walter: Praise of the political discipline. In: Südkurier of March 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bueb, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and head of the Schloss Salem school
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Moshi